Month: Aug 2013

I grew up on an island famous for its citrus fruit and its potatoes. There was nothing like travelling through the orchards heavy with flowers and inhaling that sweet unmistakable scent of orange and lemon blossom.  There would be festivals to celebrate the fruit and parades of floats made exclusively of oranges and lemons. A…

A stone’s throw from Brisbane and with a linking bridge it was the obvious choice for a lazy Sunday outing and what fun it was. It took us just over an hour to reach. We parked and wandered off and within minutes we found ourselves on this long stretch of beach with people picnicking, swimming…

I have been a little late in posting this. Just too much going on. EKKA is a wonderful show not least because of all the variety and this posting is dedicated to the animal side of it which after all is how it all began. A day is hardly enough time to go through all…

The EKKA is on – and the town is abuzz with it now. It is the Brisbane Exhibition Show – the time that country meets town, when all those years ago the livestock breeders would come to display their stock, show off the latest agricultural machines and meet other country folk.  It is called Ekka,…

For those of you who have followed my blog you will know that I am keen on the fauna and the flora. I spent the weekend leafing through “The wild plants of Greater Brisbane” and I am keen to share some of them with you as they show themselves to me. You have to admit…

Walking out today I was struck by one thing- the blue, blue of the sky with not a cloud in sight.  I rushed back home to get my camera so that I could try to capture that light for you and the way it penetrates the world in which I live while the sun warms…